Books like Beautiful Ruins
12 books with a reading profile close to Beautiful Ruins by Jess Walter. Inward-looking; a moderate read.
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1
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Sam Masur and Sadie Green meet as children in a hospital game room and later reunite as college students in Boston to build a digital world together.
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2
Peony in Love
by Lisa See
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Set in seventeenth-century China, this story follows Peony, a sheltered girl from a wealthy family who becomes obsessed with the opera The Peony Pavilion.
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3
Queenie
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Queenie Jenkins is a twenty-five-year-old British-Jamaican woman living in South London whose life begins to unravel after a difficult breakup with her white boyfriend, Tom.
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4
Ghosts
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Dolly Alderton's debut novel, "Ghosts," introduces readers to Nina Dean, a successful food writer navigating the treacherous waters of modern dating in her early thirties.
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5
You Are Here
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Marnie and Michael are two solitary individuals stuck in professional and emotional ruts.
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The Fault in Our Stars
by John Green
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Hazel Grace Lancaster lives with a terminal thyroid cancer diagnosis and carries an oxygen tank to breathe.
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7
Looking for Alaska
by John Green
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Miles Halter leaves his mundane life in Florida to attend Culver Creek Preparatory High School in Alabama, driven by a fascination with the final words of famous individuals.
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8
Why We Broke Up
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Minny Green, a high school junior and film fanatic, writes a lengthy letter to her ex-boyfriend, Ed Slaterton, the school’s star basketball player.
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9
History Is All You Left Me
by Adam Silvera
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Griffin Jennings struggles to process the sudden death of his first love and ex-boyfriend, Theo, who drowned in a private school pool.
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10
Cleopatra and Frankenstein
by Coco Mellors
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Twenty-four-year-old Cleo, a British painter living in New York on an expiring student visa, impulsively marries Frank, an advertising executive twenty years her senior.
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11
Green Dot
Also inward-looking · romance, narrative
Hera, a woman in her twenties in Sydney, works a dull job at a magazine and wants to be a writer.
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12
Girl with a Pearl Earring
romance, narrative
In seventeenth-century Delft, sixteen-year-old Griet enters the household of Johannes Vermeer as a quiet, observant maid.
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